CVE-2026-71222

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Published: September 3, 2026 (3 days ago)
Last Modified: September 3, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in gfs2-utils. The ea_num_ptrs field from on-disk extended attribute metadata is consumed without bounds validation, causing a heap buffer over-read that may disclose sensitive memory contents or cause a crash when processing crafted GFS2 filesystem images.

CWE

CWE-125

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov